Here you will find some plans/suggestions about what could be added to MusE. Feel free to give us an impression on your ideas of what should be added. If you have already implemented your idea and if it's stable it's most likely that we include it into the current development tree for the next release which does not yet have a feature freeze.

But be careful with your modifications to the page, do not change or damage other ideas if you are not sure.

Plans for the coming release(s)

Visual metronome

Support for external control and feedback equipment

Make it easier to setup a basic environment (basically wrt softsynths, possibly just add a shortcut button on the toolbar.)

(already implemented) reimplement no-audio backend to use muse as a standalone sequencer

(already implemented) Converter for old songs

Downmixing to other formats than WAV (should be possible when coming version of libsndfile is released)

(already implemented)VST effect plugin support

(in the works) add midi in/out indicator

(in the works) graphical viewing and editing of automation placed on the tracks.

(already implemented) Fix shortcut for moving between markers.

(already implemented) Improve import so it puts the wave at the import spot and not at the locator.

improve marker editor with various navigation possibilities

Feature to grab a bunch of notes from with an midi editor and create a new part from that (probably on the clipboard)

RDF support, there is a library for handling LADSPA meta data that would be good to support.

Support for grouping in drum editor, explanation from John Check: Just want to clarify. Hihats require monophonic behaviour(as opposed to polyphonic) as stated. When I say groups, generally I mean for convenience, such that port reassignment can be done in bunches. Of these, we can either hardcode some for psuedo-monophony or have a toggle. The grouping itself is more important that monophony. Usage example: Say you're collaborating and the other party uses a whizbang2000 cymbal emulator, which will be in the final product, but it'll be done at your place. On the day of reckoning, the other party brings their WB2k and jacks it in to your system. If we had groups "to port", we only have to make the port reassignment once.

(already implemented) Support for DSSI (disposable softsynth interface...if it takes of, that is)

Some wishlist items from Emiliano Grilli:

List editor doesn't allow me to insert arbitrary controllers (I would like to create slurs like is described in http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tutr/slur.htm - but list editor seems not to accept controllers 100 and 101) or there is another way of doing this?

MIDI import/export of single tracks: I don't know how much this is diffficult to implement from the programmer point of view, but would definitely be an handy addition.

MIDI constraint: it would be cool in the piano roll editor if one can select say a chord or a scale from a drop down box and the relative notes are highlighed (like in jazz++ when you select a chord in the harmony browser) and the new inserted notes "snap" to that notes.

MIDI groove templates: I think we lack a facility to define quantization patterns, like you find in cubase for example. I guess this is not easy to do, but is worth the effort, IMHO. With such a tool an user can define a library of quantization patterns that can be exported and shared with other users, and/or included in the next versions of muse.

Add a button that tells if midi remote control is active and to enable/disable it.

(already implemented) Provide a way to start MusE without relying on Jack (or rather audio, several people have expressed interest in using MusE as a sequencer only).

Here's some information about features available in Sequencer Plus Gold from Dave Phillips

(This information is also available in it's original form from Dave's site.)

Here are the Normal Transforms from Sequencer Plus Gold :

TIME

PITCH

VELOCITY

SPLIT

RANDOM/MISC

Quantize

Transpose

Set

Pitch

Pitch

Super-quantize

Harmonic transpose

Adjust

Quantize

Start-time

Quantize duration

Inversion

Crescendo

Velocity

Velocity

Set duration

Harmonic inversion

Set note-off

Duration

Duration

Adjust duration

Map

Adjust note-off

Modulus

Merge

Retrograde

Compex

Track rebar

Offset

Range rebar

Compex

And here are the MIDI Transforms:

TIME

VALUE

INS/DEL

TEMPO

Retrograde

Scale

Fill

Accelerando

Offset

Shift

Crescendo

Scale

Compex

Invert

Thin

Shift

Map

Elim dupes

Thin

Map programs

Elim dupes

Tap tempo

Edit regions include whole track or group of tracks, individual
measures, and individual note, and is not restricted to measure
boundaries. Alas, non-contiguous editing is not supported.

The MIDI transforms affect MIDI messages other than note-on and
note-off. Sequencer Plus employed a user-designated track for tempo
messages, it could be edited like any other track.

The Harmonic Xpos and Invert transforms and the Pitch randomization
employ user-defined settings in a Keysig popup.

Sequencer Plus also includes advanced grouping features, multiple track
recording, block editing, SMPTE/MTC/MMC support, and much more. Its
drawbacks include no Undo/Redo, no graphic controller editing, and no
source code. However, it is now being given away by Voyetra.

Plans (which went into) 0.7

The concepts for 0.7 where:

main goal for MusE 0.7 is stability.

The next is better audio recording / mixing and a more stable interface to software sythesizers.